Originally posted by Kost

Jesus, you too Mike?

A horrible start? You're seriously going to label the game in that negative fashion over a few measly few hours downtime on the launch day of the most aniticipated PC game in history?

Honestly, your article reads like it was written by the forum trolls who spent the duration of the day crying on the o-forums yesterday about not being able to play, while the rest of us had a really enjoyable experience. The only downtime that was truly an inconvenience was the downtime yesterday evening, the other period's of downtime were trivial at best.

Way to jump on the bandwagon.

 

A few hours?  I was lucky to get in early afternoon (after spamming through the 37 error for over one and half hour) and kept myself logged in during dinner.

My gf wasn't able to get in at all the whole day yesterday due to errors 37 and 75! She still hasn't been able to get in!

So please!  A few hours my ass!

Originally posted by Kost

Jesus, you too Mike?

A horrible start? You're seriously going to label the game in that negative fashion over a few measly few hours downtime on the launch day of the most aniticipated PC game in history?

Honestly, your article reads like it was written by the forum trolls who spent the duration of the day crying on the o-forums yesterday about not being able to play, while the rest of us had a really enjoyable experience. The only downtime that was truly an inconvenience was the downtime yesterday evening, the other period's of downtime were trivial at best.

Way to jump on the bandwagon.

 

You may want to go back and read past the first paragraph.

Bren

Originally posted by Kost

Jesus, you too Mike?

A horrible start? You're seriously going to label the game in that negative fashion over a few measly few hours downtime on the launch day of the most aniticipated PC game in history?

Honestly, your article reads like it was written by the forum trolls who spent the duration of the day crying on the o-forums yesterday about not being able to play, while the rest of us had a really enjoyable experience. The only downtime that was truly an inconvenience was the downtime yesterday evening, the other period's of downtime were trivial at best.

Way to jump on the bandwagon.

 

Pretty much said what I was thinking here, I got the same feeling. Though don't try and counter any thing he or those like him say, you'll be turned into a flaming pile of ash.

No one wants to listen or cares to understand anything about how things work in the real world and diablo 3's virtual one.

Originally posted by Brenelael

Originally posted by Kost

Jesus, you too Mike?

A horrible start? You're seriously going to label the game in that negative fashion over a few measly few hours downtime on the launch day of the most aniticipated PC game in history?

Honestly, your article reads like it was written by the forum trolls who spent the duration of the day crying on the o-forums yesterday about not being able to play, while the rest of us had a really enjoyable experience. The only downtime that was truly an inconvenience was the downtime yesterday evening, the other period's of downtime were trivial at best.

Way to jump on the bandwagon.

 

You may want to go back and read past the first paragraph.

 

Bren

I personally read past the first paragraph and while it isn't nearly as blatant as the trolls, it echos them.

Originally posted by Aori

Originally posted by Brenelael

Originally posted by Kost

Jesus, you too Mike?

A horrible start? You're seriously going to label the game in that negative fashion over a few measly few hours downtime on the launch day of the most aniticipated PC game in history?

Honestly, your article reads like it was written by the forum trolls who spent the duration of the day crying on the o-forums yesterday about not being able to play, while the rest of us had a really enjoyable experience. The only downtime that was truly an inconvenience was the downtime yesterday evening, the other period's of downtime were trivial at best.

Way to jump on the bandwagon.

 

You may want to go back and read past the first paragraph.

 

Bren

I personally read past the first paragraph and while it isn't nearly as blatant as the trolls, it echos them.

Did you read the 3/4ths of the article where he explains that the game is great fun? The servers have had issues and I would expect no decent game reporter to ignore that. Mike was just reporting the facts about server outages. It's only the first two paragraphs of an otherwise glowing review. Get a grip please.

Bren

The writing was of poor quality, especially the ending which was cheesy. They clearly used their WoW quest writers to write the storyline which they should not have done for a game storyline.

It has a very annoying "always online" DRM. You are not allowed to play single player offline, so whenever blizzard's servers go down (every tuesday for maintenance and whenever they have problems) you get kicked off and cannot play. DRM that stops you playing a game you paid for that is not an MMO is certainly fair game in a game review, ignoring it would not be fair.

Very little character customization, this should not be defined as an RPG of any kind. Stats are automatically given, you cannot choose where to put them and by level 60 you have all the skills in the game, so there is no decision making on your part to customize a character apart from what items to wear.

The cinematic's graphical quality is excellent, but the poor writing hurts them abit. Especially the ending which was a big let down.

Originally posted by Brenelael

Originally posted by Aori

Originally posted by Brenelael

Originally posted by Kost

Jesus, you too Mike?

A horrible start? You're seriously going to label the game in that negative fashion over a few measly few hours downtime on the launch day of the most aniticipated PC game in history?

Honestly, your article reads like it was written by the forum trolls who spent the duration of the day crying on the o-forums yesterday about not being able to play, while the rest of us had a really enjoyable experience. The only downtime that was truly an inconvenience was the downtime yesterday evening, the other period's of downtime were trivial at best.

Way to jump on the bandwagon.

 

You may want to go back and read past the first paragraph.

 

Bren

I personally read past the first paragraph and while it isn't nearly as blatant as the trolls, it echos them.

Did you read the 3/4ths of the article where he explains that the game is great fun? The servers have had issues and I would expect no decent game reporter to ignore that. Mike was just reporting the facts about server outages. It's only the first two paragraphs of an otherwise glowing review. Get a grip please.

 

Bren

 

 

Ok let me explain, I did read it but reviews that start negative and end negative usually overshadow the good if people even read the middle and most don't.

There is also this whole idea of starting a review without a conclusion. So people will read a review during launch and get a sour taste, they are likely not be interested anymore if they were on the fence. Why come back to read the finished review if it starts off bad?

I don't like this style of reviewing, you review the product and then after some months of settle you review it again if you think its needed.

Meh Diablo games have always been too small anyway, Sacred has always had a much better world, if diablo had a full open go where you want whe nyo uwant world, it would be spot on perfect.

Originally posted by Paragus1

Originally posted by orbitxo

was wondering when you guys would talk about  server issues. its sad- after a beta stress weekend, they would fall  worse than the weekend itself.

 

Tell that to this guy...

I have a feeling that guy doesn't have much more going on in his life than video games.

Aori, this is supposed to be a review not an advertisement for your favourite game. You can't expect anyone other than a hack to leave out DRM issues that stop people from playing a game they paid for. This is not an MMO.

"I don't like this style of reviewing"

You don't like that it wasn't given an automatic 10/10

I do hope that he chooses to review the storyline, the auctionhouse (which in my opinion removes much of the challenge from the game, not that normal had any to begin with, allowing you to buy items far better than your own for very little money, making things quite trivial), and the character customization.

Originally posted by Aori

Originally posted by Brenelael

Originally posted by Aori

Originally posted by Brenelael

Originally posted by Kost

Jesus, you too Mike?

A horrible start? You're seriously going to label the game in that negative fashion over a few measly few hours downtime on the launch day of the most aniticipated PC game in history?

Honestly, your article reads like it was written by the forum trolls who spent the duration of the day crying on the o-forums yesterday about not being able to play, while the rest of us had a really enjoyable experience. The only downtime that was truly an inconvenience was the downtime yesterday evening, the other period's of downtime were trivial at best.

Way to jump on the bandwagon.

 

You may want to go back and read past the first paragraph.

 

Bren

I personally read past the first paragraph and while it isn't nearly as blatant as the trolls, it echos them.

Did you read the 3/4ths of the article where he explains that the game is great fun? The servers have had issues and I would expect no decent game reporter to ignore that. Mike was just reporting the facts about server outages. It's only the first two paragraphs of an otherwise glowing review. Get a grip please.

 

Bren

 

 

Ok let me explain, I did read it but reviews that start negative and end negative usually overshadow the good if people even read the middle and most don't.

There is also this whole idea of starting a review without a conclusion. So people will read a review during launch and get a sour taste, they are likely not be interested anymore if they were on the fence. Why come back to read the finished review if it starts off bad?

I don't like this style of reviewing, you review the product and then after some months of settle you review it again if you think its needed.

 

Almost every online game has server issues at launch. WoW had horrendous server issues at launch and every review site slammed them for it... It really doomed that game to failure didn't it? If Mike had of ignored the launch server issues and only reported the positive there would be even more people on here slamming him for that. A review should include the entire player experience from the game install to the actual game play. I would expect no less.

Bren

Originally posted by Brenelael

Originally posted by Aori

Originally posted by Brenelael

Originally posted by Aori

Originally posted by Brenelael

Originally posted by Kost

Jesus, you too Mike?

A horrible start? You're seriously going to label the game in that negative fashion over a few measly few hours downtime on the launch day of the most aniticipated PC game in history?

Honestly, your article reads like it was written by the forum trolls who spent the duration of the day crying on the o-forums yesterday about not being able to play, while the rest of us had a really enjoyable experience. The only downtime that was truly an inconvenience was the downtime yesterday evening, the other period's of downtime were trivial at best.

Way to jump on the bandwagon.

 

You may want to go back and read past the first paragraph.

 

Bren

I personally read past the first paragraph and while it isn't nearly as blatant as the trolls, it echos them.

Did you read the 3/4ths of the article where he explains that the game is great fun? The servers have had issues and I would expect no decent game reporter to ignore that. Mike was just reporting the facts about server outages. It's only the first two paragraphs of an otherwise glowing review. Get a grip please.

 

Bren

 

 

Ok let me explain, I did read it but reviews that start negative and end negative usually overshadow the good if people even read the middle and most don't.

There is also this whole idea of starting a review without a conclusion. So people will read a review during launch and get a sour taste, they are likely not be interested anymore if they were on the fence. Why come back to read the finished review if it starts off bad?

I don't like this style of reviewing, you review the product and then after some months of settle you review it again if you think its needed.

 

Almost every online game has server issues at launch. WoW had horrendous server issues at launch and every review site slammed them for it... It really doomed that game to failure didn't it? If Mike had of ignored the launch server issues and only reported the positive there would be even more people on here slamming him for that. A review should include the entire player experience from the game install to the actual game play. I would expect no less.

 

Bren

 

That is fine, I think you missed my point though. Since this is only part of the review, we're dealing with launch problems. People are just going to take this review at face value and likely never come back. They don't have the whole picture and only a snippet of what the game has to offer.

It could be the best game in the world, however if you do the review about launch day and nothing else.. well people will likely lose interest because of the problems initially and never come back to hear the rest of the story.

The writing was of poor quality, especially the ending which was cheesy. They clearly used their WoW quest writers to write the storyline which they should not have done for a game storyline which should have better writing.

It has a very annoying "always online" DRM. You are not allowed to play single player offline, so whenever blizzard's servers go down (every tuesday for maintenance and whenever they have problems) you get kicked off and cannot play. This is not an MMO and irritating DRM that stops you playing a game you paid for as single player should obviously be taken into account in a review.

Very little character customization, this should not be defined as an RPG. Stats are automatically given, you cannot choose where to put them and by level 60 you have all the skills in the game, so there is no decision making on your part to customize a character apart from what items to wear.

The cinematic's graphical quality is excellent, but the poor writing hurts them abit. Especially the ending which was a big let down.

I found that the auctionhouse trivilaizes the item drops I find, because I could always get much better items than what I could find on the auctionhouse for low prices. Suddenly my item drops don't matter.

I sure wish that MMORPG.com would stick with MMOs.

Originally posted by Palazious

I sure wish that MMORPG.com would stick with MMOs.

 

When you are offered some beta pass's, kickbacks of course your gonna advert there product .

I'm having fun with it, not sure what all the emo is around here.

Originally posted by Cabaloc

Originally posted by Palazious

I sure wish that MMORPG.com would stick with MMOs.

 

When you are offered some beta pass's, kickbacks of course your gonna advert there product .

i dunno mike did say there was a vote on it and the yes votes beat the no votes for a review aparently...or we can just speculate n stuff :)

Originally posted by Aori

Originally posted by Brenelael

Originally posted by Aori

Originally posted by Brenelael

Originally posted by Aori

Originally posted by Brenelael

Originally posted by Kost

Jesus, you too Mike?

A horrible start? You're seriously going to label the game in that negative fashion over a few measly few hours downtime on the launch day of the most aniticipated PC game in history?

Honestly, your article reads like it was written by the forum trolls who spent the duration of the day crying on the o-forums yesterday about not being able to play, while the rest of us had a really enjoyable experience. The only downtime that was truly an inconvenience was the downtime yesterday evening, the other period's of downtime were trivial at best.

Way to jump on the bandwagon.

 

You may want to go back and read past the first paragraph.

 

Bren

I personally read past the first paragraph and while it isn't nearly as blatant as the trolls, it echos them.

Did you read the 3/4ths of the article where he explains that the game is great fun? The servers have had issues and I would expect no decent game reporter to ignore that. Mike was just reporting the facts about server outages. It's only the first two paragraphs of an otherwise glowing review. Get a grip please.

 

Bren

 

 

Ok let me explain, I did read it but reviews that start negative and end negative usually overshadow the good if people even read the middle and most don't.

There is also this whole idea of starting a review without a conclusion. So people will read a review during launch and get a sour taste, they are likely not be interested anymore if they were on the fence. Why come back to read the finished review if it starts off bad?

I don't like this style of reviewing, you review the product and then after some months of settle you review it again if you think its needed.

 

Almost every online game has server issues at launch. WoW had horrendous server issues at launch and every review site slammed them for it... It really doomed that game to failure didn't it? If Mike had of ignored the launch server issues and only reported the positive there would be even more people on here slamming him for that. A review should include the entire player experience from the game install to the actual game play. I would expect no less.

 

Bren

 

That is fine, I think you missed my point though. Since this is only part of the review, we're dealing with launch problems. People are just going to take this review at face value and likely never come back. They don't have the whole picture and only a snippet of what the game has to offer.

It could be the best game in the world, however if you do the review about launch day and nothing else.. well people will likely lose interest because of the problems initially and never come back to hear the rest of the story.

This is a review-in-progress, not our full review. I clearly explained this in the article and even said to take this as a sort of first impressions of the launch game. Considering the majority of the first 24 hours of launch consisted of varying levels of instability and/or outright downtime I felt it was prudent to mention this as it directly affected my ability to play the game and actually experience material to review.

I was able to get in a couple of hours and then had to stop because, again, the servers were down. At that point I just decided to write the piece and by the time I was done servers were still down. ;)

Originally posted by Palazious

I sure wish that MMORPG.com would stick with MMOs.

 

Didn't you hear? Anything that forces you to be online to play and offers coop is an MMORPG now.

IT is a bit fun how some people says he is on blizzard payroll,and how some other says he bash the game too much.

So far i can say he just said mostly fact, if you enjoy this kind o fgames,  it is a fun game, but right now  due to the need of being online is down most of the time.

And is an online game,  and mostly is one of the biggest hit of this year, or at least should be, i find normal they give it coverage,  what  they should be talking about?  EU economic crisis?